wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores
ISBN: 9780739122402 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Small Towns and Big Business comprehensively examines the phenomenon of local protests against Wal-Mart superstores. Using fieldwork and archival sources, Halebsky situates these protests in the context of economic restructuring and the expansion of retailing; explains how some local social movements were able to successfully fend off the world's largest retailer; and assesses the implications for efforts to limit corporate power, resist McDonaldization, and protect local quality of life.
Small Towns and Big Business comprehensively examines the phenomenon of local protests against Wal-Mart superstores. Using fieldwork and archival sour...
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564,42 zł |
Cuba: Twenty-Five Years of Revolution, 1959-1984
ISBN: 9780275916480 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On January 1, 1984, Cuba celebrated the 25th anniversary of its revolution. As the first socialist revolution both in Latin America and in the Western hemisphere, its progress over the years has been closely observed by diverse parties as well as by scholars and academics. In this volume a number of well-known scholars in the field offer an assessment of Cuba's achievments, lessons, problems, and innovative solutions over this period. These essays present a comprehensive view of Cuba covering social reform, cultural change, the economy, the political process and foreign policy. On January 1, 1984, Cuba celebrated the 25th anniversary of its revolution. As the first socialist revolution both in Latin America and in the West... |
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182,55 zł |
Transformation and Struggle: Cuba Faces the 1990s
ISBN: 9780275932282 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the second of two volumes to bear witness to the Cuban experience. Together with its predecessor, "Cuba: Twenty-Five Years of Revolution," it offers a positive account. Yet, it is sensitive to the dilemmas and flawed strategies in Cuba's thirty-year process of transformation. It warns that no preconceived notion of state or of development will help grasp the multifaceted nature of this nation, which reflects aspects of both developed and underdeveloped nations. Seventeen chapters, five of which are from Cuban contributors, thoroughly investigate recent political, economic, and... This is the second of two volumes to bear witness to the Cuban experience. Together with its predecessor, "Cuba: Twenty-Five Years of Revolution," ... |
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188,09 zł |
Mass Society and Political Conflict: Toward a Reconstruction of Theory
ISBN: 9780521098847 / Angielski / Miękka / 1976 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Of particular interest will be the detailed summary of the origins of mass political theory.
Of particular interest will be the detailed summary of the origins of mass political theory.
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220,89 zł |
Small Towns and Big Business: Challenging Wal-Mart Superstores
ISBN: 9780739122419 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. During the 1990s, a new type of controversy began occurring across the United States: controversies over the siting of superstores, also known as big box stores. In these disputes, which often involve Wal-Mart, the world's biggest retailer, local citizens mount organized opposition to the proposed siting of a superstore in their town or neighborhood. Opponents criticize Wal-Mart superstores for putting local independent merchants out of business, siphoning money from the local economy, providing substandard jobs, disrupting residential neighborhoods, contributing to the 'McDonaldization' of...
During the 1990s, a new type of controversy began occurring across the United States: controversies over the siting of superstores, also known as big ...
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249,01 zł |
Cuba: Twenty-Five Years of Revolution, 1959-1984
ISBN: 9780275901141 / Angielski / Twarda / 1985 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. On January 1, 1984, Cuba celebrated the 25th anniversary of its revolution. As the first socialist revolution both in Latin America and in the Western hemisphere, its progress over the years has been closely observed by diverse parties as well as by scholars and academics. In this volume a number of well-known scholars in the field offer an assessment of Cuba's achievments, lessons, problems, and innovative solutions over this period. These essays present a comprehensive view of Cuba covering social reform, cultural change, the economy, the political process and foreign policy.
On January 1, 1984, Cuba celebrated the 25th anniversary of its revolution. As the first socialist revolution both in Latin America and in the West... |
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387,35 zł |
Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America
ISBN: 9780367314804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region's accelerated integration into the global economy. Although this transformation has tended to exacerbate various inequities, new forms of popular expression and action challenging the contemporary structures of capital and power have
Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region's accelerated integration into the...
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457,30 zł |
Transformation and Struggle: Cuba Faces the 1990s
ISBN: 9780275932275 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This is the second of two volumes to bear witness to the Cuban experience. Together with its predecessor, "Cuba: Twenty-Five Years of Revolution," it offers a positive account. Yet, it is sensitive to the dilemmas and flawed strategies in Cuba's thirty-year process of transformation. It warns that no preconceived notion of state or of development will help grasp the multifaceted nature of this nation, which reflects aspects of both developed and underdeveloped nations. Seventeen chapters, five of which are from Cuban contributors, thoroughly investigate recent political, economic, and... This is the second of two volumes to bear witness to the Cuban experience. Together with its predecessor, "Cuba: Twenty-Five Years of Revolution," ... |
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387,35 zł |
Sky = Empty
ISBN: 9781930974913 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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77,47 zł |
Capital, Power, And Inequality In Latin America
ISBN: 9780813321172 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region's accelerated integration into the global economy. Although this transformation has tended to exacerbate various inequities, new forms of popular expression and action challenging the contemporary structures of capital and power have also developed.This volume is a comprehensive, genuinely comparative text on contemporary Latin America. In it, an international group of contributors offer multidimensional analyses of the historical context, contemporary character, and future...
Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region's accelerated integration into the...
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173,42 zł |
Yuba Flows
ISBN: 9780917658358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Editor: Gail Rudd Entrekin. Poetry by six Northern California Poets: Kirsten Casey, Gary Cooke, Cheryl Dumesnil, Judy Halebsky, Iven Lourie, Scott Young. Another anthology put together by the fiercely independent Hip Pocket Press, this book, according to poet Molly Fisk, ..".includes poems of childhood, love, travel, myth, reminiscence and landscape. But its essential nature is commitment -- to experience, sensation and language -- beautifully encompassed by the closing line of Judy Halebsky's DOWN THE MOUNTAIN: ..".whatever I came with I spent."
Editor: Gail Rudd Entrekin. Poetry by six Northern California Poets: Kirsten Casey, Gary Cooke, Cheryl Dumesnil, Judy Halebsky, Iven Lourie, Scott You...
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57,25 zł |